Occupation: Philologist Birth: September 28, 1746 Death: April 27, 1794
Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile..
Live as if you already are what you wish to become..
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisi….
Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meannes….
An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter..
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven..
Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself..
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important….
[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets..
Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung..
I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likel….
The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my affections, the mirror of my thoughts, ….
The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law..
In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love..
My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed..
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement..